Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hollywood made its contribution to the U. S.'s two World's Fairs-A 14-reel, 2-hr. 17-min., free-show cinerama of U. S. history pieced together from Hollywood historicals, newsreels, shorts and travelogues of the last 25 years, it was put out by the Hays office with the title: Land of Liberty. To compile it, 53 large and small cinemakers contributed 2,000,000 feet of film. The earliest: a newsreel of the Kaiser (1914); the latest: The Bill of Rights, a Warner Bros, short to be released in August. From this vast...
...result is skimpy where Hollywood has done little prospecting (Colonial days), rich where Hollywood has found the pickings good (Reconstruction, World War, etc.), authentic chiefly when the newsreel camera has the screen. More reliable as a history of Hollywood enterprise than as history straight, Land of Liberty recalls the cinema great from Griffith (America) to Disney (Building a Building), not forgetting Mae West (Belle of the Nineties) or the MARCH OF TIME. It opens with Roosevelt II rededicating the Statue of Liberty, scurries back 400 years to show why the early colonists left Europe, hits the high spots from then...
...genial, mustached Arthur E. La Porte, wiry veteran of many a hop across the Pacific, went the honor. When the last handshake had been exchanged before the newsreel cameras, Pan American Airways' President Juan Terry Trippe, seeing another ocean-spanning dream about to come true, turned to him: "Captain La Porte, is the flight in order...
Eastman and Herman Axelbank spent 13 years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...
...Margaret Webster, newsreel-length Shakespeare was a light chore at the end of a heavy season. Besides laboring at the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Henry IV Part I, she directed the current Family Portrait, plays Mary Magdalene in it. The most powerful new director in the U. S. theatre, Margaret Webster is bold, witty, imaginative. She does not approach Shakespeare on bended knee, but gives him a hearty slap on the back...